I'm working on a script that we will use to power off a SAN in the event of a
power failure. What I'd like to do is use have a computer called PC1 start a
script on PC2 when it is being shutoff for power failure. I plan on having
the UPS software initiate the script on PC1. When PC1 starts the script on
PC2, I want PC2 to have a pause in the script where it waits for 5 minutes or
so before running the next line that will start the shutdown on SAN.

I'm not sure how get PowerShell to wait for xx seconds before running the
next line. Any help would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks,
Joe

> I'm not sure how get PowerShell to wait for xx seconds before running the

> next line. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The start-sleep cmdlet should help:

PS > get-help start-sleep -examples
NAME
Start-Sleep
SYNOPSIS
Suspend shell, script, or runspace activity for the specified
period of time.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------
C:\PS>Start-Sleep -s 15
This command makes the shell sleep for 15 seconds.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------
C:\PS>Start-Sleep -m 500
This command makes the command shell sleep for 1/2 second (500
milliseconds).


Marco

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